Resources

Design thinking simultaneously considers what is desirable from a human point of view, what is technologically feasible, and what is economically viable. It also allows people who aren’t trained as designers to use creative tools to address a vast range of challenges. Below you’ll find a mix of resources and tools to familiarize yourself with design thinking:

Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors of this paper show how design thinking and collaborative creativity can shake up even the most entrenched bureaucracies—and provide a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools

IDEO CEO Tim Brown's 2009 TED Talk urges designers to think big, shifting their practice from the act of creating an object to the act of fusing design, business, and social studies to solve big, real-world problems